QE Trade Continues As Bonds, Bullion, And High-Beta Stocks Bounce

So Venezuela is collapsing, Thailand is crumbling, and Ukraine is for all intent and purpose under martial law, US macro data is dreadful (and no, it's not all the frigging weather), and German consumer confidence dumped again; and US stocks soar (8th day in a row for Nasdaq for first time since July) on the back of a BoJ move that was fully expected (and entirely under-utlized) but sprung USDJPY back above 102. S&P futures volume was 35% below average as the day-session range was extremely small. The Russell 2000 almost reached unchanged for 2014. The un-taper, QE balls-to-the-wall trade continues it would appear - Gold (and even more so silver - longest win-streak in 46 years) continue to surge; Treasury yields continue to slide; the USD slips lower (led by EUR strength); and of course, high-beta equities jump higher (as stodgy big caps underperform). Unfortunately, the EM crisis is far from over - as EM FX tumbled today. VIX also rose notably, disconnecting from stocks; and credit markets are wider today than Friday's close.

While stocks made the headlines, the real news was made in commodity-land with silver and crude oil surging...

Time for corrections are over, its all or nothing; there are two options from here, you know it, I know it, they know it. They keep printing more money at a faster and faster pace untill it comes unglued and crashes into the ground or they stop printing money and the whole thing comes unglued and crashes into the ground.

The only real question is when, not if, it will all fall apart and do you have the capital to hold shorts as the positions move potentially another few hundred percent against you demonstrating the true nature of infinite risk.

If you like selling em here at 1840 you are going to LOVE selling them next year at 2840....

that the Fed ran (runs) a secondary QE program (perhaps equal to the on-books QE...perhaps double) through foreign financial centers of the world through countries like Ireland, Belgium, Norway, Taiwan, UK, HK, Russia, etc, etc. to maintain the US Treasury bid / yield and these purchases are "attributed" via TIC in the nation where they are purchased (not to purchaser)

ie, who believes that our good friend Russia increased their holdings from $8 B in Jan '07 to $140 B today??? Make sense???

ie, how bout China increasing from $400 B in '07 to $1.268 T now in US Treasury debt???

ie, how about Norway who held $0 in June '07 now holding $97 B in Treasury debt??? Make sense???

ie, Ireland held $10 B in '07...now holds $125 B??? Make sense???

And on and on...

OR

These countries love american debt that yields nothing, will be paid back in inflated dollars, and ties them to a dollar based global system they are trying to move away from??? Since '08 they have all supposedly massively increased their holdings for somebody???

FYI -

this data really is utterly worthless...read.

Long and short of this is we have no idea who bought these, who owns these, only where they are purchased and being held. Nothing to stop the Fed or ESF or whatever to buy all the Treasury's they want with free money and hold them in China or Japan or Belgium to attribute them to "foreigners" rather than Fed??? If this is 10% right, be very very afraid of the dollar.

If above is even remotely correct - Dollar may be the dirtiest dirty shirt!!!

These nations are de-dollarizing asap via removing dollar trading (particularly China/ Russia), talking dollar down, but strangely their attributed holdings only go up...perhaps they really are moving away and we only see the facade of dollar stabiliteeeee'

The biggest "red flag" in this is the Fed tapering, and they were buying all medium term Notes / all Bonds (up to their 70% limit) but on their stated exit from QE, "Foreigners" who own $5 T+ would have seen rates would be rising and prices falling...if they were "investors" they would have been selling. But no selling...these are not "investors". This is someone unconcerned with taking losses.

You gotta buy something with the money you get for selling oil and other goods to the US. They pay in dollars so it makess more sense to keep it in USD than convert it your your currency knowing that the yanks are going to deflate it.